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So crossroads ... embrace non-existing squat and go all in on athletic stuff like bball/sprinting/dunking ... or take a step back and try to get my squat going? Which way do I go? I just wanna get to repping 140kg and put it on maintenance .. not asking for too much am i? I mean i am, that's adding 20kg to my squat while not gaining any weight .. but maybe i could work harder/smarter/etc...

Keep up the bball/sprinting/dunking because that's the stuff you want to be good at. Squatting is just a means to an end. When I ran my fastest I didn't even squat or lift I was just really light and used to play sports a lot. Sport-specific is what makes you good at the sport. Getting into the mindset of thinking about your squat is making you sound like a powerlifter and honestly the biggest advantage of the squat is really the standing vertical jump.

That dunk looked so easy. 

Nothing to update except that I'm now sick with a fairly bad cold. I fkn hate winter. My body doesn't tolerate the cold temperatures very well.

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Quote from: Dreyth on July 05, 2016, 03:34:03 pm

da hell you gonna be all skinny and sexy when you were single, but not look your best for your man?!

 

This^^^

Women are just idiots. Proven to me again and again and again and.... you get the idea... waaaaaaaaaay too many times.

Prisons are full of males.  Wars are started by males.  If Donald Trump becomes the next president of the US it will be because of the male vote and not the female vote.  Women do better with less opportunity and face a hostile work environment and discrimination in what was a male dominated workforce...

And since the topic is about being overweight... Men in America on average have a bmi of almost 30 and bodyfat above 20%...  They are on average fatter than women despite far less predisposition to store fat, and no biological excuse to need to gain weight (childbirth)... 

Id say the evidence is pretty strong that the average guy is far stupider than the average women...  If women are idiots.... I don't know what the hell men are!

Where are you getting your sources about the average man in America having a BMI of approximately 30 and being 20%+ bodyfat?

For the average sedentary male if they have a BMI of 30 they are going to be a lot closer to 30%+ bodyfat then they are to 20%.

Edit-I found a source comparing the average Australian man to the average American man.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/this-is-what-mr-average-australia-looks-like-20141028-11cyp9.html

"Rather, he stands at 175.6 centimetres tall and weighs in at 85.9 kilograms. This gives Jack a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 27 putting him squarely in the middle of the overweight category and a few kgs shy of the medically defined obesity range.
Jack is shorter, but slightly leaner than Todd though - the average American man, whose BMI is 29, one below obese and who is 176.4".

Quote from: seifullaah73 on July 05, 2016, 10:37:39 am

Very interesting to see different countries criteria and the national trials, the UK trials were OK but they seem to struggle, but the US trials was on another level, they really are passionate about their athletes and push for them unlike in the UK. The criteria to qualify in USA was sub 10 seconds? correct me if im wrong. Justin gatlin won a good time. Jamaica trials was intense also, unfortunately for bolt's injury he couldn't compete, but yohan blake is not at the level to threaten bolt but gatlin definitely is getting back to his old self.

i've only seen the US trials but ya they are intense. Gatlin basically owns the "old farts sprinting thread". Man he's flying. Crazy to think he won gold in 2004 and is about to challenge everyone again in 2016. For a young guy, Bromell is impressive too.

I really hope Bolt is healthy come August.

Kim Collins is injured now and probably wouldn't have got to go to the Olympics due to political reasons, but he ran a PB of 9.93 at 40 years of age, which is just mindblowing.

http://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/kim-collins-smashes-masters-wr-with-9-93-100m-global-update-43785/

"Kim Collins runs 9.93 PB and masters WR

Ageless wonder Kim Collins ran a PB and St. Kitts and Nevis record of 9.93 (+1.9) at a meeting in Bottrop, Germany, to become the first 40-year-old to go sub-10 seconds for 100m.

The 2003 world champion, who ran his previous PB of 9.96 in London aged 38, beat USA’s Joe Morris with a 10.15 PB and Britain’s Adam Gemili with a 10.19 season opener".

Bodyweight- 87.4

I've been resting for 5 days. The weather has been terrible. We just had the wettest July day in my city since 1941. My lats not fully recovered yet, but I would be fine to do squats and running. I'll rest 2 more days and then just get back into training again. I agreed to go to a family friends yoga class this Thursday night so that should be interesting since I've never done it before. Can't say I'm looking forward to it though, but I could really benefit from some extra flexibility, particularly in my legs/hamstrings so I'm giving it a shot. 

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Quote from: Mutumbo000 on July 03, 2016, 02:25:17 am

That stadium looks heaps cool and the gym equipment looked impressive as well.

Was that the USC football team training on the field when you guys were doing the 400m?

Yeah that's the USC summer practice.  They are resurfacing their practice field so now they on the track which is annoying...  But you gotta share equipment on some level...

SC has decent equipment, but usually train people their just cause it's convenient to have a track, turf, gym and bball court all within a minute walk.  Acoles was shocked that our bball gym has 3 full courts and they were all empty lol.

Looks world class compared to what I have in my city. We have 1 track for a city of 1.2 million people. All the other 'tracks' are grass tracks and there's not even that many of them around. In terms of stadiums that have 3 basketball courts we have 4 of them, but they are all geographically spread apart. To have all of those facilities in one location would be a dream.

Acole is from Melbourne so they have better facilities, but I can see why he would be shocked.

Interesting... We do have it good here and I have to remind myself to be appreciative of it... Our biggest advantage is year round good weather - almost never rainy and almost always in the 70s... I am always reminded of this when I go to the east coast to travel in the winter and I want to train... In a city where I have no connections and it's cold and rainy it just seems hopeless - the cool thing about LA is even if you have no money or means you can stumble upon a decent track not too far... Even if that's not possible you can always go run hills outdoors...

As far as Australia... How big is fitness there?  Sounds like a business opportunity if your city is as underserved as you make it sound... In NYC there are tons of people and terrible weather and they have what is probably the best gym I have seen for the public... It's not cheap by any means but if you can put up a couple hundred a month you literally have it all... Weights, 400m track, 200m banked track, basketball courts, sand volleyball, soccer fields, everything all under one roof:

https://www.chelseapiers.com/

I don't know why more such facilities don't exist in populated cities...

Fitness is becoming fairly popular in Australia. We already have heaps of  gyms, but they are mainly the Planet Fitness type. In the last 5 years the trend has been for more 24/7 gyms and Crossfit has been gaining some traction as well. There are some niche powerlifting type gyms as well. My gym that I joined costs $12.95 a week and has all the basic equipment that I need. There's no chains, bands, bumper plates or anything, but for the price it's good value.

Climate wise it's a Mediterranean climate- hot and dry in the summer and cold and wet in the winter. So realistically you'd only need an indoor track for about 5 months of the year tops. The real problem is there just isn't the demand for track in Australia. It's not like the US where track is a sport that gets played at school regularly. Schools only have 'athletics day' and you have a couple of meets throughout the year where the fastest kids in one school will race against the fastest kids in other schools in the area. Then the fastest in the area run against the others that win in their areas for state day and if you're lucky enough to be the fastest in the state you get to travel interstate and run nationals.

People would love to have basketball courts though, but I'm not sure how much people would be willing to pay in extra gym memerships just to have an indoor court. My guess in the current economic climate in my state- not much. 

*Sorry for the journal hijack acole.

Not much to update. Haven't been to the gym or done any exercise since Thursday (it's Monday morning now). My right lat is feeling better but not completely healed yet, but the ROM is coming back.

I worked at the election on Saturday from 7am-midnight. I was sitting down from 8am-1pm and didn't move out of the chair the whole time. My hips and groins were feeling sore just from sitting down that long and all tight. My hamstrings also felt 'squashed'. My job was to tick people's names off the electoral roll, which is a massive phone book style book. I also had to hand out all the voting forms so I was constantly leaning into the table all day. From 1:30 to 6pm I was standing up, which was a lot better but I still felt stiff.

The weather has been terrible. It's been raining everyday for the past week and because it's winter the sun is hardly ever out. 7am it's still dark and by 6pm it's dark again. I just need to get motivation to wake up earlier and go running before work!